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Dublin, Ohio, 16,736 students in 24 schools

Dublin City School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Dublin, measured against Dublin's own big snow morning of 3.5 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Dublin close tomorrow?

Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in Dublin.
The Dublin playbook

How Dublin calls a snow day

When the call comes

No later than 6:30 a.m., sometimes the night before.

“Usually, the decision to delay or cancel school will be made no later than 6:30 a.m. In some cases, the decision may be made the night before if weather conditions warrant.”
Source

How families hear

By the district app, the district website, social media and local TV.

“As soon as a decision is made, the DCS Communications team will notify all families via ParentSquare. Delays or closures are also published on the homepage of the DCS website, as well as on our Facebook and Instagram accounts.”
Winter Weather Procedures - Dublin City Schools

A 2 hour delay

On a delay morning every school starts 2 hours late.

“Any delay in the start of school will be a two-hour delay.”
Delay schedule

Making up a lost day

Extra hours are built in; missed time above the state minimum is not made up.

“Dublin City Schools intentionally builds additional hours into the school year calendar in anticipation of inclement weather. Hours missed above the required minimum do not need to be made up.”
Source

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day August 20, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 21 to Jan 1
  • Last day May 28, 2027
District calendar

The board policy

“There is no set temperature at which the district automatically closes school, but the ambient temperature is one of the many factors (along with wind-chill, road conditions, and weather forecasts) that are taken into consideration when making a decision.”
Board policy

Read from Dublin’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is dublinschools.net.

Ten winters of school mornings

Dublin’s snow record

22inches of snow a winter
2.3school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
1with 4 in or more
3.5 ina big snow morning in Dublin: the top tenth of snowy school mornings

More 4 inch school mornings than 72% of the 582 Ohio districts with a station record.

1.3Nov
4.5Dec
7.3Jan
6.4Feb
1.9Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 6.2 in on February 17, 2024
  • Snowiest winter 2018 to 2019, 33.1 in
  • 6 in mornings 0 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 4.1 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 3.4 miles away. Mornings are the 7 am snow reading on a weekday from December 1 through March 31, over the ten winters from 2016 to 2017 through 2025 to 2026, from NOAA GHCN Daily.

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The Ohio rule

How Ohio counts a lost day

Ohio requires hours, not days: 910 hours for full day kindergarten through grade 6, 1,001 hours for grades 7 to 12, 455 for half day kindergarten. Only hours that drop a school below the state minimum must be made up, by extending the school year.

The Ohio rules in the agency’s own words, and every Ohio district

Next door

Districts near Dublin

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Worthington City School DistrictWorthington12.6 in0.1
Upper Arlington City School DistrictUpper Arlington19.6 in0.6
Olentangy Local School DistrictLewis Center20.1 in0.6
Hilliard City School DistrictColumbus19.6 in0.6
Jonathan Alder Local School DistrictPlain City22 in1
Grandview Heights City School DistrictColumbus19.6 in0.6
The schools

24 schools

Every school in Dublin follows the district’s call: one closing covers them all.

High

  • Dublin Jerome High School
  • Dublin Coffman High School
  • Dublin Scioto High School

Middle

  • Ann Simpson Davis Middle School
  • Eversole Run Middle School, Plain City
  • Henry Karrer Middle School
  • John Sells Middle School
  • Willard Grizzell Middle School

Elementary

  • Abraham Depp Elementary, Plain City
  • Eli Pinney Elementary School
  • Glacier Ridge Elementary
  • Daniel Wright Elementary School, Columbus
  • Mary Emma Bailey Elementary School
  • Hopewell Elementary
  • Albert Chapman Elementary School, Powell
  • Griffith Thomas Elementary School
  • Scottish Corners Elementary School
  • Wyandot Elementary School
  • Indian Run Elementary School
  • Deer Run Elementary School
  • Olde Sawmill Elementary School
  • Riverside Elementary School
  • DCS Virtual

Other schools

  • Dublin Preschool
Questions

Dublin snow day questions

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A residential street under deep snow on a bright blue morning, cars parked along the curb buried into smooth white mounds, one set of tire tracks down the middle
The morning after a big one: cars buried to the mirrors and one set of tracks down the middle. A street like this is a closing, no debate. Photo, Fairfax, Virginia, January 2016: Jarek Tuszyński, CC BY 4.0

The odds are a forecast read, and the superintendent makes the call: the district’s own announcement is the one to follow.